Saturday Night Live

More and more I am skipping entire show. The only bright spot is still the weekend update. Cast is great however writing is awful. Few good guests each season and that's it. Soon I believe I will stop watching it entirely. And yes I agree with every agenda they are pushing, it's simply not funny anymore.

An earlier reviewer said this show sucks and that the "new cast" is terrible. What is interesting about SNL is how whenever there is a changeover of cast, it has become almost a tradition to hate the newcomers. In truth, however, many of the episodes that have aired in recent years -- even since the 1998 review I refer to -- have now come to be considered classics. And the cast members so many of us hated at first are now often seen in a favorable light alongside the "classic" cast of the late 1970s. And what cannot be denied is no TV program in history has been such a fertile breeding ground for future stars. Just look at the cast list and be amazed.

The first five years of S.N.L. will always be the "golden era" of this show. Belushi, Akroyd, Chase, Curtain, Newman, Morris, Radner and Radner will always represent an era when some of the best comedic talent of the 1970's were all on one show and as a springboard for greatness. However, once the original cast was gone the show went in decline for me. Even though talents like Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscapo, Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey, Martin Short and Billy Crystal became big stars as a result of being on the show, the magic that the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players will never be duplicated. They made Saturday nights worth staying at home.

Politics politics politics. Comedy? Not so much present anymore. Absolutely and seriously unfunny. You know what I really want to see when I tune into comedy shows? Constant making fun of trump and a clown talking about getting an abortion. Just such a terrible and cringeworthy show, Lorne Michaels apparently had a double orchiectomy.

I like to describe this show like a on and off relationship because one year this show is funny and the next it sucks and it's like that year after year. Still it always manages to make you laugh and it has been the breakthrough show for some of the greatest comedians of all-time.